Clinical Challenge: Opioid Tapering
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Clinical Challenges > Pain Management New trials look at ways to help chronic pain patients take fewer drugs by Senior Staff…
Clinical Challenges > Pain Management New trials look at ways to help chronic pain patients take fewer drugs by Senior Staff…
With the huge push to reduce opioid prescribing, little is known about the risks or benefits to patients having to quit or wean…
Three studies published this year have examined the risks when patients with chronic pain abruptly stop taking opioids.
"We are worried by these results, because they suggest that the policy recommendations intended to make opioid prescribing…
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Patients coming off opioids for pain were three times more likely to die of an overdose in the years that followed, research…
A recent study found an alarming outcome: Patients coming off opioids for pain were three times more likely to die of an…
With a huge push to reduce opioid prescribing, little is known about the real-world benefits or risks to patients.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With a huge push to reduce opioid prescribing, little is known about the real-world benefits or risks…
Patients on chronic opioid prescriptions who came off opioids were three times more likely to die of an overdose in the years…
Patients on chronic opioid prescriptions who came off opioids were three times more likely to die of an overdose in the years…